As the most common childhood physical disability in the world, cerebral palsy affects two in every 1,000 live births. With no known cure, the most children can hope for is several years of an assisted and challenging life.
The risks to the mother and child during childbirth have drastically reduced over the past century. Thanks to specialised medical advances and a growing understanding of the role of health, the vast majority of births each year are complication-free and lead to healthy newborns.
Sadly, cancer can be diagnosed at any age — one example being how bone cancer is more frequently diagnosed in children and adolescents than in any other group.
En 2017, un estudio inicial comenzó a investigar si las infusiones de sangre del cordón umbilical pueden mejorar los síntomas del trastorno del espectro autista (TEA) en niños pequeños. Tras los ensayos de fase I y fase II, los resultados se revelaron en el Journal of Pediatrics de junio de 2020.
